page_title: 1977
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1977 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Porträt von Charles Chaplin (circa 1920). English: Portrait of Charles Chaplin.
context_page_description: 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.
context_section_description: December 3 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower (b. 1899)
  December 4 – Tom Senier, Irish melodeon (single row diatonic accordion) player  (b. 1895)
  December 5
  Katherine Milhous, American artist, illustrator, and writer (b. 1894)
  Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
  December 7 – Gheorghe Cialâk, Romanian general (b. 1886)
  December 12 – Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
  December 13 – Sir Charles Petrie, British historian (b. 1895)
  December 15 – Wilfred Kitching, 7th (British) General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
  December 16
  Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (b. 1879)
  Yngve Larsson, Swedish Ph.D., Municipal commissioner (Borgarråd), Member of Parliament and statesman (b. 1881)
  December 18 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian actor and director (b. 1897)
  December 19
  Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
  Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 (b. 1876)
  December 22
  Karl John, German actor (b. 1905)
  Johannes Pedersen, Danish theologian and linguist (b. 1883)
  December 24 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, 58th President of Peru (b. 1910)
  December 25
  Charlie Chaplin, British actor, producer and director (b. 1889)
  Oliver P. Smith, American general (b. 1893)
  December 26 – Howard Hawks, American film director (b. 1896)
  December 27 – Mildred Bendall, French active force of the avant-garde (b. 1891)
  December 28
  Karen Grech, Maltese terrorism victim (b. 1962)
  Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (b. 1890)
caption: Charlie Chaplin
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